Community of Practice: Stories Beneath the Surface
Today I attended the first workshop of the Community of Practice: Stories Beneath the Surface workshop programme I have enrolled on. What is it? It is a series of powerful workshops that supports the development of the creative practice led by practitioners/researchers within contemporary ceramics. It is a space to explore the authority and versions of told history. “The programme seeks to explore how absent identities and people can be centred in stories told through contemporary ceramics using museum collections, archives, oral histories and unofficial archives”. I signed up to the workshops because I want to explore the recording of the renovations at Theatr Clwyd but through ceramics. I wasn’t sure how I was going to achieve this and then came across this programme and thought it would greatly increase my understanding of the “told history” and ways in which to record it. There are three artists leading the programme: Jacqueline Bishop, Paul Scott and Matt Smith. Jacqueline led the...